August 2, 2010

View of the day-We did a test then closed up the hopper because the skies did not look too friendly.

It was another wickedly humid day and the flies were biting...not a good sign. We went out to the field to see if we could have another catastrophe loading the header on the trailer.

We had come up with yet another plan to offset the balance issue that made the header want to tip off the trailer...not quite perfect just yet. We did get it loaded on and strapped down, then moved over to get the straight header into transport to move down to the highway field just out of town. The farmer had gotten one of the rye fields swathed and was getting ready to swath the next one when we left the field, so hopefully it will only be a few days before we can get started on that.

We moved down to the spring wheat field and got the header back on, then did a test. The elevator told us it was 16.2% moisture...not so good. We went back to the field and closed up the hopper, then went back to the camper for the rest of the day after grabbing a quick snack.

We had only been in the camper for 10 minutes when it started to rain...and then the wind came up as you can tell from the wind sock in the picture. It came down hard for about 10 minutes, then cleared right off and the sun came out...but it never cooled off and the humidity was up there again.

Back at the camper Marilyn worked on a video tribute to Kathy and Al did a bit of shopping on the internet and watched some TV.

And the rest of the day was more of the same...